The essay includes this: "I was unsure what I was seeing, as I scrolled through images of what appeared to be a smiling white cowboy chasing black people with a whip...."
It's now known that what may have appeared as whips, were reins, and reportedly no whipping was going on. The photographer himself has attested to how the photograph was misinterpreted.
One interesting angle that perhaps could enrich a future version of this informative and cogent essay is the somewhat disparate paths of the 2 countries that share the island of Hispaniola: Haiti and Dominican Republic.
The essay includes this: "I was unsure what I was seeing, as I scrolled through images of what appeared to be a smiling white cowboy chasing black people with a whip...."
It's now known that what may have appeared as whips, were reins, and reportedly no whipping was going on. The photographer himself has attested to how the photograph was misinterpreted.
One interesting angle that perhaps could enrich a future version of this informative and cogent essay is the somewhat disparate paths of the 2 countries that share the island of Hispaniola: Haiti and Dominican Republic.